This time he was making no mistake.

She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.

A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.

A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.

With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.

There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.

Similar to the AMD K5, the Cyrix 6x86 was a design far more focused on integer per-clock performance than clock scalability, something that proved to be a strategic mistake.

And even in those that he was successful this would be temporary, just until a mistake or chance event caused another failure, another disappointment for the frustrated duck.

The hospital admitted that the boy was circumcised by mistake ; the mother has sued the hospital and the doctor involved in the case.

New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.

Although both sides agreed that the failure to pay these royalties was an accounting mistake, they were upset that Biafra failed to inform the band of the mistake after he and his co-workers discovered it.

Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.

Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.

The mistake was picked up and repeated by numerous other media sources, and the moniker " D. B. Cooper " became lodged in the public's collective memory.

Thomas, realizing that his success as a high school dropout might convince other teenagers to quit school ( something he later claimed was a mistake ), became a student at Coconut Creek High School.

Enya issued a press release on her official Web site on 19 September stating that this was a mistake and no new album was immediately forthcoming.

The study defined ' true ' extreme sports as a leisure or recreation activity where the most likely outcome of a mismanaged accident or mistake was death.

By mistake, the year of his birth was given as 1848, not the correct 1845.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

But to imitate an opponent when he has made the mistake of his life would be a new high in statesmanlike folly.

So he made a mistake.

He made the mistake of answering in an offhand way, and instantly realized that his skepticism must have showed in his face or voice.

If it continues indefinitely it is nearly a statistical certainty that a mistake will be made and that the devastation will begin ''.

There also came a brief contretemps with the sound mixers who made the mistake of being overheard during a quiet moment near the conclusion of `` Do It Again '', and she made the tart observation that `` I never saw so much moving about in an audience ''.

I made the mistake of going to the Jour et Nuit.

If a mistake had been made, from the assembly's viewpoint it could only be because it had been misled.

The Sikhs became particularly troublesome, and after several unsuccessful efforts to subdue them, Zaman Shah made the mistake of appointing a forceful young Sikh chief, Ranjit Singh, as his governor in the Punjab.

He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.

One problem with sports arbitrage is that bookmakers sometimes make mistakes and this can lead to an invocation of the ' palpable error ' rule, which most bookmakers invoke when they have made a mistake by offering or posting incorrect odds.

Decius ' forces defeated their opponents in the front line, but made the fatal mistake of pursuing their fleeing enemy into the swamp, where they were ambushed and routed.

Odrade believes that the Bene Gesserit made a mistake in fearing emotion, and that in order to evolve, the Bene Gesserit must learn to accept emotions.

Having consolidated his conquests in Syria ( 1831 – 38 ), Ibrahim Pasha, son of the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali Pasha, made the fatal mistake of trying to disarm the Christians and Druzes of the Lebanon and to draft the latter into his army.

Instead of encouraging people to accept that they made a mistake, it encourages people to deny their actions and blame others.

Training as a jockey in his teens, Jones later said " I made one huge mistake.

According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).

Shortly after the story broke the White House admitted to a low-level mistake, saying that Fox had not made a specific request to interview Feinberg.

When Hayek left Salzburg in 1977, he wrote, " I made a mistake in moving to Salzburg ".

Profits can be made by purchasing the mispriced security and then waiting for the market to recognize its " mistake " and reprice the security.

Kelly, at the very peak of his creative powers, now made what in retrospect is seen as a serious mistake.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

They keep their wings and feet pressed tightly against their bodies, and in spite of their often colorful attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of dirt.

Gothic fashion is often confused with Heavy Metal fashion and Emo fashion: outsiders often mistake fans of heavy metal for goth, particularly those who wear black trench coats or wear " corpse paint " ( a term associated with the black metal music scene ).

The mistake that is often made here is to confuse the human being's understanding of his actions and of physical phenomena with the knowledge possessed by the Diving Being.

Gould responded that critics often made the mistake of confusing the context of discovery with the context of justification.

Very often, Westerners mistake hudud punishment for the punishment regularly given under sharia law, but that is inaccurate ; hudud punishments are only meant as a deterrent for rare cases.

Children from age range from 3 – 5 years old may often mistake the divorce of their parents as their own fault.

A common mistake of novice players is to bring the queen out too soon ( premature development of the queen ), which often results in a lot of wasted moves, and sometimes even loss of the queen.

The Church of St Cuthbert ( which tourists often mistake for the cathedral ) has a fine Somerset stone tower and a superb carved roof.

" This reversal of fortune must be caused by the tragic hero's hamartia, which is often mistranslated as a character flaw, but is more correctly translated as a mistake ( since the original Greek etymology traces back to hamartanein, a sporting term that refers to an archer or spear-thrower missing his target ).

This orthographical rule is often disregarded in quick typing, although its omission is always considered a mistake.

Studies have shown that rescuers often make a mistake when checking the carotid pulse in an emergency, whether they are healthcare professionals or lay persons.

It will often mistake phage for bacteriocins.

Eisenhower is often said to have remarked that his appointment was " the biggest fool mistake I ever made.

However, it is very difficult to prove because when confronted, at least the first time, the cheat often calls the cheating an honest mistake.

Mark Mardell of the BBC news reported: On the Monday the Conference was to begin, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini ( who was until last year the European commissioner for security and justice ) had told the Italian newspaper Il Giornale that Europe's failure to agree on a common approach was " a very serious mistake, because it shows our inability, despite all the words uttered in this connection, to come up with at least a lowest common denominator on a basic problem: namely the struggle against discrimination, on behalf of which we in Brussels so often speak out ".

A mistake that is often made in purchasing bearings is that spending more translates to more speed.

However due to the large growing and more populous Pearland, Texas adjacent to the city, visitors without any full knowledge of the area often mistake the city for being part of Pearland.

For existing unsynchronized tractors, the methods of circumvention are double clutching or power-shifting, both of which require the operator to rely on skill to speed-match the gears while shifting, and are undesirable from a risk-mitigation standpoint because of what can go wrong if the operator makes a mistake – transmission damage is possible, and loss of vehicle control can occur if the tractor is towing a heavy load either uphill or downhill – something that tractors often do.

Patients with hypochondriasis often are not aware that depression and anxiety produce their own physical symptoms, and mistake these symptoms for manifestations of a non-psychological disorder or disease.

Popularisation of the term has resulted in its being applied to any slip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, often in an attempt by the user to humorously assign hidden motives or an air of sexual innuendo to the mistake.

White-winged Choughs are easily recognised but often mistaken for " crows "— a double mistake, as the birds most frequently called " crows " in Australia are actually ravens ( see Australian Raven and Little Raven ).

Mobbing, especially by males, is also used to scare off unwanted predators, although mobbing often targets large animals and man-made devices by mistake.